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Bournemouth Town Centre market report BH1, Bournemouth
The standing BH1 (Bournemouth Town Centre) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 17,509 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in BH1 (Bournemouth) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical BH1 (Bournemouth) home changed hands for £215,000 in 2026 (median of 101 registered sales, up 5% on five years earlier), with the mean at £225,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,330 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 17,509 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
BH1 is a postcode district covering Bournemouth Town Centre, East Cliff, Springbourne in Bournemouth. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where BH1 sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
What buyers actually paid in BH1
Across 101 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) BH1 home went for £215,000. The mean is £225,300, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
House prices per square metre in BH1
Measured by floor area, the last five years of BH1 sales average about £3,330 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts BH1 25% below the country at large.
The price of a typical BH1 home, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £215,000 | £215,000 | 101 |
| 2025 | £218,500 | £223,725 | 300 |
| 2024 | £235,000 | £249,853 | 291 |
| 2023 | £216,500 | £237,881 | 304 |
| 2022 | £215,000 | £252,112 | 447 |
| 2021 | £205,000 | £259,556 | 463 |
| 2020 | £198,000 | £256,909 | 385 |
| 2019 | £172,500 | £226,106 | 419 |
| 2018 | £178,000 | £237,277 | 495 |
| 2017 | £170,000 | £231,863 | 553 |
| 2016 | £158,000 | £221,044 | 619 |
| 2015 | £172,000 | £243,036 | 590 |
| 2014 | £163,000 | £231,244 | 512 |
| 2013 | £158,200 | £227,634 | 422 |
| 2012 | £148,500 | £218,573 | 301 |
| 2011 | £160,000 | £241,538 | 329 |
| 2010 | £167,500 | £262,683 | 285 |
| 2009 | £155,000 | £249,164 | 291 |
| 2008 | £165,000 | £270,470 | 405 |
| 2007 | £167,000 | £283,279 | 830 |
| 2006 | £155,000 | £269,060 | 815 |
| 2005 | £155,000 | £275,838 | 677 |
| 2004 | £150,000 | £272,429 | 799 |
| 2003 | £140,000 | £257,914 | 961 |
| 2002 | £107,500 | £202,260 | 878 |
| 2001 | £83,500 | £160,524 | 840 |
| 2000 | £75,000 | £147,188 | 821 |
| 1999 | £60,000 | £119,577 | 833 |
| 1998 | £56,000 | £113,040 | 781 |
| 1997 | £49,000 | £100,489 | 695 |
| 1996 | £44,000 | £92,794 | 572 |
| 1995 | £43,000 | £93,475 | 495 |
In cash terms the typical BH1 home went from £43,000 in 1995 to £215,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 130%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2007. The market now sits about 24% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BH1 median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2003 (+30.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2016 (−8.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −1.6% | −3.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.0% | −3.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.1% | −0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.6% | −1.1% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of flats dominate the record here, 79% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £360,000 against £189,000 for a flat, 1.9 times the price.
Median by property type, BH1
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £360,000 (2025) | – | 907 |
| Semi-detached | £290,000 | 12 | 1,357 |
| Terraced | £283,500 | 10 | 1,496 |
| Flats | £190,000 | 75 | 13,745 |
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Month by month, five years back
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
Over the last twelve months of data, 232 sales completed in BH1. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 828 sales a year before the financial crisis and 289 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
The shape of the BH1 market
In its area's price order BH1 comes 25 of 26, towards the cheaper end of the table.
What tenants pay around BH1
For renting purposes BH1 sits in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole. The ONS average private rent there is £1,404 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £922 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,092 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,404 a month is £16,848 a year, which against the £215,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 7.8%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
Asked and answered: BH1 (Bournemouth Town Centre)
Is BH1 (Bournemouth Town Centre) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BH1 (Bournemouth Town Centre)?
Are property prices falling in BH1 (Bournemouth Town Centre)?
Are BH1 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 5% over five years in cash but down 17% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
On the market in BH1 today
Everything above is what homes in BH1 sold for. The live side of the market holds 200 homes at the moment, listed by 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 19% below the BH1 median sold price.
39% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Dean Park Road, Bournemouth, Dorset, BH1
- Knyveton Road, Bournemouth, Dorset, BH1
- Carysfort Road, Bournemouth, Dorset, BH1
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every BH1 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
What another bedroom costs in BH
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the BH area. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £375,000 | £500,000 (+33%) | £744,000 (+49%) | £1,083,250 (+46%) |
| Semi-detached | £293,000 | £329,975 (+13%) | £375,000 (+14%) | £480,000 (+28%) | £700,000 (+46%) |
| Terraced | £265,000 | £305,000 (+15%) | £350,000 (+15%) | £460,000 (+31%) | £600,000 (+30%) |
| Flat | £175,000 | £245,000 (+40%) | £372,500 (+52%) | £625,000 (+68%) | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
BH1 ranks 12 of 26 in the BH area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
Five-year change in the median, BH area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside BH1, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BH1 1 | £205,000 | 30 |
| BH1 2 | £145,000 | 3 |
| BH1 3 | £211,500 | 28 |
| BH1 4 | £251,800 | 40 |
How BH1 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the BH area, and BH1 itself, which ranks 25 of 26 by median price:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| BH18 | £545,000 | +21% |
| BH13 | £518,800 | -3% |
| BH24 | £450,000 | -7% |
| BH7 | £445,000 | +16% |
| BH19 | £433,800 | +23% |
| BH23 | £420,000 | +11% |
| BH21 | £412,500 | +3% |
| BH31 | £410,000 | +4% |
| BH6 | £406,000 | +4% |
| BH14 | £400,000 | +0% |
| BH25 | £400,000 | -5% |
| BH22 | £385,000 | -4% |
| BH20 | £375,000 | +8% |
| BH9 | £353,600 | +9% |
| BH10 | £350,000 | +9% |
| BH3 | £327,500 | -30% |
| BH15 | £320,000 | +7% |
| BH16 | £320,000 | +3% |
| BH17 | £320,000 | +11% |
| BH11 | £315,000 | +10% |
| BH12 | £308,000 | +4% |
| BH8 | £297,500 | +8% |
| BH4 | £258,500 | -2% |
| BH1 (this report) | £215,000 | +5% |
Selling a home in BH1? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in BH1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BH1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BH1 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim BH1.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BH1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual BH1 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.